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370 Books in 20 Months: S.African Author Defends Her Use of AI
Hart says market research and AI help her tailor romance titles, while one book reached Amazon’s top 100 and sales topped 1 million.
- South African author Coral Hart has published more than 370 books since February 2025 using artificial intelligence, earning more than $1 million this year from sales exceeding one million copies.
- Hart worked in publishing for 14 years before adopting AI 20 months ago. She defines concepts before running models, noting ChatGPT is "really good at dialogue, terrible at prose" while Claude offers "really good story structure, terrible at sex drives."
- Receiving "tens of thousands" of hate messages and several death threats, Hart faces severe social media backlash. Users label her a "grifter" or "villain," describing the author as the "symbol of AI's arrival in publishing."
- Defending her work against accusations of "AI slop," Hart argues "books are selling." She employs a human proofreader to fix "AI tells that have slipped through" before publication.
- Hart is preparing to launch software called Authorythm for other AI authors. Her stance coincides with broader industry debates, including when Haitian-Canadian Thelyson Orelien's novel was withdrawn from France's Goncourt prize shortlist over AI-use allegations.
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Coral Hart, a South African author, assumes that she has written her books using AI. ...
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Coral Hart, a South African writer, has written hundreds of books with ChatGPT, Claude or Grok. She today responds to the many and virulent critics.
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370 books in 20 months: S'African author defends her use of AI
South African author Coral Hart defends her use of AI to publish over 370 books in 20 months, a process that has earned her over $1 million this year. Read More: https://punchng.com/370-books-in-20-months-safrican-author-defends-her-use-of-ai/
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